Cambridge, <1>
March 23. 1819.
My Dear Mr Feilding,
I am sorry you are going out of Town so soon, it obliges me to answer your letter in a very hurried manner, as I have been obliged to snatch a moment this evening, to go home & write this – I am very well pleased with your arrangement, & I wish you wd put some money to my account at present, as (until they see the cash) no rhetoric on Earth can restrain my tradesmen from sending in their bills to Johnny Brown) – I think you are mistaken about Hookham’s <2> – I subscribed in the end of January, – my subscription then will not be out, till the end of April – will you be so kind as to ascertain this? – And exhort them to send me Ross’s voyage <3> which is just going to be published.
If I direct to you “Brighton” will it do?
Yrs ever Afftly
W. H. F. Talbot
Capt Feilding R. N.
31 Sackville St
London
Notes:
1. Trinity College, Cambridge.
2. Thomas Hookham advertised a circulating library, consisting of more than 100 volumes.
3. Sir John Ross (1777–1856) undertook a mission to find the Northwest Passage in 1818.